ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,435, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data forwarding for user equipment with data transmission" was invented by Li Yang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Zou (Shenzhen, China) and He Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for data forwarding for user equipment with data transmission. A non-anchor node may receive user data of a wireless communication device to send uplink. The non-anchor node may decode the user data into an uplink air interface protocol protocol data unit (PDU), using a partial portion of context information ...